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Susan Cartwright

Other affiliations: University of Manchester
Bio: Susan Cartwright is an academic researcher from Lancaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mergers and acquisitions & Organizational culture. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 90 publications receiving 8161 citations. Previous affiliations of Susan Cartwright include University of Manchester.


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TL;DR: In this paper, three stress related variables (psychological well-being, physical health, and job satisfaction) are discussed and comparisons are made between 26 different occupations on each of these measures.
Abstract: Purpose – To compare the experience of occupational stress across a large and diverse set of occupations. Three stress related variables (psychological well‐being, physical health and job satisfaction) are discussed and comparisons are made between 26 different occupations on each of these measures. The relationship between physical and psychological stress and job satisfaction at an occupational level is also explored.Design/methodology/approach – The measurement tool used is a short stress evaluation tool which provides information on a number of work related stressors and stress outcomes. Out of the full ASSET database 26 occupations were selected for inclusion in this paper.Findings – Six occupations are reporting worse than average scores on each of the factors – physical health, psychological well‐being and job satisfaction (ambulance workers, teachers, social services, customer services – call centres, prison officers and police). Differences across and within occupational groups, for example, teac...

1,251 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, three primary streams of enquiry can be identified within the strategic and behavioural literature, which focus on the issues of strategic fit, organizational fit and the acquisition process itself.
Abstract: The complex phenomenon that mergers and acquisitions (M&As) represent has attracted substantial interest from a variety of management disciplines over the past 30 years. Three primary streams of enquiry can be identified within the strategic and behavioural literature, which focus on the issues of strategic fit, organizational fit and the acquisition process itself. The recent achievements within each of these research streams are briefly reviewed. However, in parallel to these research advances, the failure rates of mergers and acquisitions have remained consistently high. Possible reasons for this dichotomy are discussed, which in turn highlight the significant opportunities that remain for future M&A research.

694 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of culture compatibility in determining venture outcomes, focusing on the complex interaction between the existing type of premarital culture of the partners and the terms and interpretation of the type of marriage contract the parties believed they had entered.
Abstract: Executive Overview Despite the initial optimism, many organizational marriages prove to be financially disappointing. Given the consistently high rate of merger and acquisition failure, the selection of a suitable organizational bedfellow is a major financial decision. Selection decisions are generally driven by financial and strategic considerations, yet many organizational alliances fail to meet expectations because the cultures of the partners are incompatible. Based on recent research, this article examines the role of culture compatibility in determining venture outcomes. It focuses on the complex interaction between the existing type of premarital culture of the partners and the terms and interpretation of the type of marriage contract the parties believed they had entered.

617 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on redressing the balance and the organizational need to recognize the meaning and emotional aspects of work, in order to correct the imbalance in the demands placed on employees.

592 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between a measure of emotional intelligence, subjective stress, distress, general health, morale, quality of working life and management performance and found that managers who scored higher in EQ suffered less subjective stress and experienced better health and well-being, and demonstrated better management performance.
Abstract: Contemporary theories place emotions and self-regulation at the centre of a dynamic process of stress. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the ability to perceive, understand and reflectively manage one's own emotions and those of others. This study, which was situated within the management population (n = 224) of a large retail organization, investigates the relationship between a measure of EQ, subjective stress, distress, general health, morale, quality of working life and management performance. Significant correlations in the expected direction were found, indicating that managers who scored higher in EQ suffered less subjective stress, experienced better health and well-being, and demonstrated better management performance. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

527 citations


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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: This new edition of Ann Bowling's well-known and highly respected text is a comprehensive, easy to read, guide to the range of methods used to study and evaluate health and health services.
Abstract: This new edition of Ann Bowling's well-known and highly respected text has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect key methodological developments in health research. It is a comprehensive, easy to read, guide to the range of methods used to study and evaluate health and health services. It describes the concepts and methods used by the main disciplines involved in health research, including: demography, epidemiology, health economics, psychology and sociology.The research methods described cover the assessment of health needs, morbidity and mortality trends and rates, costing health services, sampling for survey research, cross-sectional and longitudinal survey design, experimental methods and techniques of group assignment, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, coding and analysis of quantitative data, methods and analysis of qualitative observational studies, and types of unstructured interviewing. With new material on topics such as cluster randomization, utility analyses, patients' preferences, and perception of risk, the text is aimed at students and researchers of health and health services. It has also been designed for health professionals and policy makers who have responsibility for applying research findings in practice, and who need to know how to judge the value of that research.

2,602 citations

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TL;DR: A review of the literature on identification in organizations can be found in this article, where the authors outline a continuum from narrow to broad formulations and differentiates situated identification from deep identification and organizational identification from organizational commitment.

2,130 citations

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TL;DR: This work identifies a set of top management team conditions that facilitates a team's ability to engage in paradoxical cognitive processes and argues that the locus of paradox in top management teams resides either with the senior leader or with the entire team.
Abstract: Sustained organizational performance depends on top management teams effectively exploring and exploiting. These strategic agendas are, however, associated with contradictory organizational architectures. Using the literature on paradox, contradictions, and conflict, we develop a model of managing strategic contradictions that is associated with paradoxical cognition-senior leaders and/or their teams (a) articulating a paradoxical frame, (b) differentiating between the strategy and architecture for the existing product and those for innovation, and (c) integrating between those strategies and architectures. We further argue that the locus of paradox in top management teams resides either with the senior leader or with the entire team. We identify a set of top management team conditions that facilitates a team's ability to engage in paradoxical cognitive processes.

1,857 citations

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TL;DR: The authors developed and meta-analytically examined hypotheses designed to test and extend work design theory by integrating motivational, social, and work context characteristics to suggest numerous opportunities for the continued development of work design Theory and practice.
Abstract: The authors developed and meta-analytically examined hypotheses designed to test and extend work design theory by integrating motivational, social, and work context characteristics. Results from a summary of 259 studies and 219,625 participants showed that 14 work characteristics explained, on average, 43% of the variance in the 19 worker attitudes and behaviors examined. For example, motivational characteristics explained 25% of the variance in subjective performance, 2% in turnover perceptions, 34% in job satisfaction, 24% in organizational commitment, and 26% in role perception outcomes. Beyond motivational characteristics, social characteristics explained incremental variances of 9% of the variance in subjective performance, 24% in turnover intentions, 17% in job satisfaction, 40% in organizational commitment, and 18% in role perception outcomes. Finally, beyond both motivational and social characteristics, work context characteristics explained incremental variances of 4% in job satisfaction and 16% in stress. The results of this study suggest numerous opportunities for the continued development of work design theory and practice.

1,739 citations